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This order may be cited as the Medicines (British Pharmacopœia Commission) Order 1970 and shall come into operation on 7th September 1970.
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(1) In this order “the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 applies to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
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There shall be established a committee to be called the British Pharmacopœia Commission for the following purposes:—
(a) the preparation under section 99(1) of the Act of any new edition of the British Pharmacopœia;
(b) the preparation under section 99(1) of the Act, as given effect by section 102(1) thereof, of any amendments of the edition of the British Pharmacopœia published in 1968 or any new edition of it; and
(c) the preparation under section 100 of the Act (which provides for the preparation and publication of lists of names to be used as headings to monographs in the British Pharmacopœia) of any list of names and the preparation under that section as given effect by section 102(2) of the Act of any amendments of any published list.
Keith Joseph
Secretary of State for Social Services
19th August 1970Given under my hand on 7th August 1970.
Peter Thomas
Secretary of State for Wales
Given under the seal of the Secretary of State for Scotland on 11th August 1970.
Gordon Campbell
Secretary of State for Scotland
Given under my hand on 14th August 1970.
W.K. Fitzsimmons
Minister of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland
